Life In Prison For Killing Informer

CHICAGO — An alleged dealer for drug kingpin Alexander Cooper was sentenced Monday in federal court to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for murdering a government informant in 1989.

U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur imposed the mandatory sentence on Darnell Davis. Davis` life was spared last October by the same jury that convicted him of gunning down Robert Parker, Cooper`s former financial adviser.

Cooper, formerly one of the South Side`s biggest drug dealers, was sentenced to life in prison last November for ordering Parker`s murder after learning he had become a government informant.